HARRY HUGHES, Governor

1605

CHAPTER 436

(House Bill 312)

AN ACT concerning

Unemployment Insurance - Work Sharing Unemployment

Insurance Program

FOR the purpose of repealing the termination date for the work

sharing unemployment insurance program; altering certain
criteria for the approval of an employer's work sharing plan

by the Secretary of Employment and Training; providing that

hours for which holiday or vacation pay is received shall be

counted as hours worked; providing that hours for which
holiday or vacation pay is received shall be counted as

hours worked; clarifying that an individual may receive a
certain maximum of work sharing benefits during each benefit

year; repealing payment of dependent's allowances under the
program; altering certain monetary eligibility requirements
for when an individual works more hours than specified in a
work sharing plan; providing for an abnormal effective date;
and generally relating to the work sharing unemployment
insurance program,

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 95A - Unemployment Insurance Law
Section 24

Annotated Code of Maryland
(1985 Replacement Volume)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF

MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

24.

Article 95A - Unemployment Insurance Law

(a) In this section, the following terms have the meanings
indicated:

(1) "Affected unit" means a specified plant,
department, shift, or other definable unit of an employer of not
less than 2 employees to which an approved work sharing plan
applies,

(2) "Affected employee" means an individual

continuously on the payroll of the affected unit for the 3 months

immediately preceding the submission by the employer of the work
sharing plan,